Bro. Harold Simmons was a licensed Southern Baptist minister for 53 years. He has served on the mission field for 54 years starting in Ohio, then Vietnam, Turkey, New Mexico, Honduras, Tennessee, Italy, Ukraine, Oklahoma and Washington D.C.  He was  a veteran of U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as a chaplain and retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel after a total of 28 years of service.